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Difficulty: Medium
Expected Duration: Day
Description
Making stop motion animation is really fun. This activity shows you the different kinds of stop motion animation possible and shows you how to make your own stop motion video.
From wikipedia.org - stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion animations, known as claymation, for their ease of repositioning.
Basic Steps
Get yourself prepared
- Decide what type of animation you will use (eg. claymation, cutout, model)
- Create your script (you can use the script activity to do this)
- Storyboard your video (you can use the storyboard activity for this)
- Create your scenes, characters and other jobjects
- Set up your scene including your background, characters and other objects
- Snap a frame, move your figures, snap a frame, ... (Recommended tools below)
- Move onto the next scene, set things up, snap your frames
- Repeat
Edit, save and share
- Edit the frames, change timing, etc.
- Add in voice and other sound
- Add titles
- Export as a movie
- Upload to this activity
- Upload to other sites as desired (eg. Youtube)
That's it.
